Previous to Aaron Carter’s loss of life, he had an estranged bond with sibling Nick Carter.
“My brother and I’ve all the time had an up and down relationship,” the “I Need Sweet” performer, who died in November 2022, completely advised Us Weekly in April 2017. “We’re brothers — what do you anticipate? We each do the identical factor too, so there’s all the time going to be an underlying competitors.”
Nick, for his half, rose to fame in 1996 as one of many 5 members of the Backstreet Boys. Because the band’s success grew, Nick — alongside bandmates Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson — invited his youthful brother to function the opening act throughout their 1997 tour.
“[Nick’s] the one who all the time needed me to do that job that I’m doing proper now,” an 11-year-old Aaron advised MTV Information in 1998. “He simply seems out for me so much.”
Nick and Aaron have been the 2 sons of Robert and Jane Carter, who divorced in 2004. Robert, who died in 2017, and Jane additionally shared daughters Bobbie and Angel in addition to Leslie, who died in 2012.
Regardless of an in depth brotherly bond as youngster stars — and even a number of musical collaborations — Nick and Aaron’s relationship turned a nook after the “Aaron’s Get together” artist notably skipped Nick’s April 2014 wedding ceremony to Lauren Kitt.
“Actually pissed off that I missed my brother’s wedding ceremony at the moment,” Aaron wrote by way of Instagram on the time, noting that he was in Washington D.C. for a live performance the day earlier than. “I hope he doesn’t hate me. … I attempted to get there. I’m sorry bro @nickcarter #TechnicalProblems.”
Nick — who shares kids Odin, born in 2016, Saoirse, born in 2019 and Pearl, born in 2021, with Kitt — remained at odds with Aaron by the years. After the “Not Too Younger, Not Too Outdated” rapper was arrested for driving beneath the affect and possession of marijuana, Nick provided a public message of help by way of Twitter.
“[The] entire factor that occurred with the DUI and all that stuff [contributed to our feud]. My brother had my [phone] quantity after which [he tweets], ‘In the event you want [anything, I’m here,]’” Aaron stated of their falling out throughout an August 2017 look on Elvis Duran and the Morning Present. “Like dude, what are you speaking about? You don’t even know me, Nick. You don’t even speak to me. We see one another a couple of times a yr and I’m maintaining it actual with you, and that’s what it’s.”
He added: “I really like my brother. I all the time will love my brother [and] I believe he loves me conditionally.”
Whereas Nick had been equally distraught over their fractured relationship, issues reached a boiling level after he accused Aaron of constructing threats about Lauren and their kids.
“After cautious consideration, my sister Angel and I remorse that we have been required to hunt a restraining order in opposition to our brother Aaron at the moment,” the previous Boy Band mentor tweeted in September 2019. “In gentle of Aaron’s more and more alarming habits and his current confessions that he harbors ideas and intentions of killing my pregnant spouse and unborn youngster, we have been left with no alternative however to take each measure doable to guard ourselves and our household. We love our brother and actually hope he will get the correct therapy he wants earlier than any hurt involves himself or anybody else.”
Aaron, for his half, denied the allegations and famous that he didn’t “intend” to see his household shifting ahead.
After Aaron’s loss of life on the age of 34, Nick issued an emotional assertion in regards to the lack of his sibling. “My coronary heart has been damaged at the moment. Though my brother and I’ve had an advanced relationship, my love for him has by no means ever light,” the I Coronary heart Nick Carter alum wrote by way of Instagram in November 2022. “I’ve all the time held onto the hope that he would one way or the other, sometime need to stroll a wholesome path and ultimately discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted.”
He concluded: “I’ll miss my brother greater than anybody will ever know. I really like you Chizz.”
Scroll beneath to revisit the 2 brothers’ relationship by the years:
